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Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is a reference book published by Pharmaceutical Press listing some 6,000 drugs and medicines used throughout the world, including details of over 125,000 proprietary preparations. It also includes almost 700 disease treatment reviews.
Author | Edited by Robert Buckingham |
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Language | English |
Subject | Pharmacy, medicine |
Genre | Medicines Information |
Publisher | Pharmaceutical Press |
Publication date | May 2020 (40th edition) |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Hardback print, digital online |
ISBN | 978-0-85711-367-2 |
OCLC | 1112886663 |
Website | https://www.pharmpress.com/product/9780857113672/martindale40 |
It was first published in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia. Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides.
Martindale aims to cover drugs and related substances reported to be of clinical interest anywhere in the world. It provides health professionals with a useful source of information to identify medicines, such as confirming the drug and brand name of a medication being taken by a patient arriving from abroad. Alternatively, if the drug is not available, the class of agent can be determined allowing a pharmacist or doctor to determine which other equivalent drugs might be substituted. Monographs include Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) numbers, Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC) codes and FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) codes to help readers refer to other information systems.
Martindale is arranged into two main parts followed by three extensive indexes:
Digital versions include an additional 1,000 drug monographs, 100,000 preparation names, and 5,000 manufacturers.
To date there have been 40 editions of Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference. The 40th edition was published in May 2020.
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